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Full English breakfast is a signature dish of United Kingdom; we have verified places to eat it in London. Bacon, sausage, fried egg, baked beans, grilled tomato, mushrooms, black pudding, fried bread or toast. Start with where to eat Full English breakfast in London.

Full English breakfast · London

Bacon, sausage, fried egg, baked beans, grilled tomato, mushrooms, black pudding, fried bread or toast. London's defining hangover plate, served all day at greasy spoons and gastro brunch rooms since the 1800s.

The full English derived from rural country-house breakfasts of the nineteenth century, codified by the Edwardian middle classes as a single plate to start the day. Mass production of bacon and sausage in the 1900s pushed it into working-class greasy spoons. The Regency Cafe (1946 on Regency Street, Westminster) and E Pellicci (1900 on Bethnal Green Road) still serve the canonical version: white plate, brown HP sauce, tea on the side. Modern London brunch rooms (Caravan, Granger and Co, Riding House) plate prettier takes; the survival of the form sits with the cafe institutions.

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